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  • Brrrrrrr bop bop bop bop brrrrrr bop bop bop

  • Analog audio is basically non-existent

    💀 I feel so old rn. all my computers and TVs have 3.5mm analog connected to a set of separate speakers. I use 2 pair of 3.5mm-connecting headphones every day (work, home). I'm nowhere near an audiophile or anything... none of it is even approaching high-end. I didn't know people had abandoned non-bluetooth so much. guests always compliment how amazing my TV sounds though...

  • The content, for sure. I'll just ask they provide their own USB drive, or I'll buy a good one for them and fill it if they'll comp me for that.

  • I just can’t imagine an executive at Boeing going out and hiring a hit man

    Really? That's weird, I totally can. It's an exceptionally narrow-minded and short-sighted knee-jerk reaction to a perceived threat of one's executive career. Most coked-out executives already have a massive god complex once they get their MBA and are installed above the proles workers. I can absolutely realistically imagine one Boeing executive getting angry enough and coked-out enough to just decide, "fuck it, I'm going to fix this problem for us before he threatens my career and reputation any more".

    The information you present about whistleblowing being stressful is fair. He may indeed have been driven to kill himself instead of being straight-up assassinated like others believe. I refuse, however, to give the benefit of doubt to a massive corporation who has already demonstrated a complete lack of regard for human life and an extremely poor track record of moral and ethical decision-making. This needs to be investigated under the assumption that a hit is an entirely possible reality. Unless you'd rather that nobody blows the whistle on anything in the future - you've already demonstrated that it's an incredibly stressful action. If there's the lingering remote possibility that you can be simply assassinated over it and everyone will look the other way, nobody will ever raise their voice again. The nature of his actions before his death demand a comprehensive and exhaustive investigation into if any person from Boeing had anything to do with it whatsoever, or whistleblowing will continue sliding into something only the insane consider.

  • smh, this just kicks the can down the road. almond milk is for baby almonds. and what are the lil newborn coconuts gonna drink? cashews will actually die if they don't have the proper milk in the first few weeks.

  • I don't think anyone would say next Saturday meaning this Saturday at all

    I am someone who does this. I know it's convention to say "this Saturday" for that, but when I'm not thinking about it too hard, it just comes out as "next Saturday" aka "the next Saturday I will experience after this very moment" aka what you would call "this Saturday". I usually have to immediately follow up with a disambiguation, because I usually only catch myself after having said it.

  • i agree with this and don't even think about it because it makes so much obvious sense, and i confuse people often who believe it to mean the one after the next one (aka "this" one) smh

  • most of this is sensible but who seriously would ever do those nature's valley bars dirty like this?? they're so good.

    i'm not mad, i'm just disappointed...

  • the thought process goes something like: relatively easy to remove the tire quickly from even most locked bikes (not everyone will run their locks though the frame and also front tires too). rubber is useless, chuck it, metal could be aluminum and could be sold for scrap for pennies.

  • no it's OK, didn't you hear? it's illegal to talk about that in Florida. it's all fine again! Ron just made the climate change illegal! it has to be fake now, because it's illegal for it to be real!

  • yep. aka a plausible way to jam Russian money into his pockets in return for future favors without leaving an obvious trail

  • some folks gave up and ended up with an Xbox or PC. I helped a few friends build a gaming rig and get onto Steam after they got fed up getting sniped by bots on friggin best buy lol

  • a person in his care and custody

    hahaha

    they would be showing this video at the academy as a demonstration of a failure to kill the guy in the back seat, therefore allowing all this to look ridiculous. to other cops, this is a grim tale of not sufficiently escalating the reality of the situation to match their internal narrative, and with this cop's public humiliation, a demonstration of how vital it is that there be a corpse if you ever act rashly for some reason.

  • Retirement funds have millions of people's retirement

    and they exist within a continuum of risk profiles. there are safer (and less potentially profitable) options, and there are riskier (and more potentially profitable) options. they have made this decision.

    you cannot pick the riskiest options for your retirement fund and then get mad there was more risk than the safest options and that you lost some of it. you cannot pick the safest options and then get mad it's not performing as well as the riskiest. if you cannot afford to lose your retirement money, do not put it into any fund or mechanism that will gamble with it beyond what you are comfortable with. it is YOUR responsibility. alone.

    as a result of your mentality, we will see less and less innovation. people who can improve the world see you and your opinions and decide, well, it's not worth it. what intelligent person would ever work with organizations that you claim are justifiably ethically bound to stab them in the back and reward them the bare minimum possible?

    and why, because grandpa ticked the "minimum risk" button in his sofi 401k and is mad he's not getting explosive vc-tech-company-tier returns? or because your uncle ticked the "maximum risk" button and is mad he lost some money? you're catering to the lowest common denominator of uninformed, entitled gamblers and are poisoning the well and breaking the whole system down as a result.

    let me guess, you have an MBA?

  • that spent their retirement money to purchase shares

    don't invest (or gamble) what you can't afford to lose.

    using some people's poor money management skills as an excuse to justify exploitation of the source of your windfall is exceptionally stupid.

    a receding tide beaches all boats. every time something like this happens, another genius with another big idea sees it and decides it's not worth it if they're just going to get the result stripped away from them by parasitic suits.

  • for most Americans, fired also just means you've probably just become responsible for your own family's ruin. for most of our working poor, being more than 10 minutes late is a quick route to eviction and years of more crippling debt for them and whoever else might be at home with them, which could well immediately destroy other's major life plans like college for kids, moving somewhere cheaper, eldercare, even medical treatments or medication, etc.

    this doesn't make driving like this less dangerous or inadvisable, of course, but the folks saying what you're saying should be aware that for a lot of folks, the certain risk of the firing is often similarly dire to the uncertain risk of driving like this.

    if you knew your partner on your work health plan was going to suffer or die without continued treatment if you're ever more than 10 minutes late to work, you'd probably consider driving like this too when you overslept because you're sick or something. it only takes one little slip-up.

  • also known as criminal negligence and failure to sufficiently maximize shareholder revenue! these criminals ought to be locked up for even insinuating that prices could go down. don't they know that whole industries' worth of valuable owner-class shareholders' beach homes and yacht upkeeps are propped up on the mass price fixing scheme fully legal free market economy we have? the only rule is to never betray your shareholders, not even for a quarter! if the orphans need to be crushed for a better YoY then, by god, not feeding them in to the machine feet-first yourself makes you a criminal and a danger to our whole society and you damn well know it!

  • I have done this. it can be quite messy but it will definitely import the albums of all the music you have either liked or followed or in playlist in Spotify.

    I'm not 100% that it will actually organize it as it was originally on Spotify, though, just that it adds the list's contents as "wanted tracks". I assume there's some way to do this but I haven't looked into it enough yet.

    It's still on my list, along with figuring out how to get Critical Role working with my Sonarr so I can be done with YouTube frontends..